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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Try this observational data: compare the incidence of COVID in children in IL with any state that didn’t require masking,
The difference is negligible and ‘observational data.’
I know a dozen or more mask and vaxx believers that do not go anywhere without their face diaper yet have still come down with the dreaded Covid. 3 shots and the ever present mask have not apparently worked. I’m not saying that masks may have not stopped a few bugs for people or that they are totally ineffective but it seems that a piece of paper or a piece of cloth that is being constantly manipulated by the wearer which I see happen all the time, not sanitized hourly, washed or changed is not going to be very effective… Read more »
The first thing they always say is “but I was wearing my mask!”
Ridiculous ‘fact check’ from a nobody college interned age ‘reporter’ with an art degree.
I often find myself wondering if any adult looks over their “fact checks.”
They are not fact checkers but in reality are “Fact Blockers” Only carefully selected words are handed out by media on a need to know basis.